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@sekhmet06

Bee positive!!🐝
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you ever just sit and realise u can’t remember 80% of your childhood? like … what happened? who am i ..?

Many people in the comments are saying “trauma”, but this is actually a very normal occurrence. It’s called Childhood Amnesia, and it’s a process which, as the brain reorganizes itself for cognitive thought that is developed in late childhood, it changes the Accessibility of those memories during recall. Many childhood memories are available to the person, but they will not be remembered during regular recall activity, you have to “trick” your brain into remembering with different tactics.

This is because there are two parts to memories - their encoding and their recall. The encoding determines their availability, their recall determines their accessibility. The reason why trauma memory and childhood amnesia are different is in this distinction. Trauma memory is often encoded differently, bypassing to the limbic system where it is stored as intrinsic memory. It can’t be recalled because it was never encoded. Childhood amnesia, however, seems to indicate that the memories are encoded, but we lose access to them as we age. This is most likely due to the development of brain structures that fundamentally change our encoding and recall of memory as we get older.

This is an important distinction, because trauma memory is “stored in the body”, i.e. you get triggers that send your body into a cascade of uncontrollable feelings, sensations and reactions. Whereas childhood memories won’t generally do that, they are just recalled at odd times with odd associations.

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malcolmcooks

reblogging this because I’ve legit seen people freaking out when they realised they can’t remember some of their childhood, thinking they might have some repressed trauma.

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biglawbear

So you mean my brain literally looked at my whole childhood and said “sorry that file type is no longer supported”

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bunjywunjy
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I saw ur post about the long neck water dinosaurs and my favourite since I was a kid has always been the elasmosaurus !! do you know any weird things about them :0 ?

plesiosaurs weren’t actually dinosaurs, but they were a closely related lineage! and elasmosaurus in particular was discovered in the late 1800′s during the early No Gods No Kings epoch of paleontology, and its discoverers got its vertebrae all jumbled up and accidentally added its neck to its tail because they just could not BELIEVE that a water creature would have a neck two times longer than its actual body.

just be glad we’ve moved forward from this.

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bunjywunjy

Do you have any fun facts about the axylotyl our lovely friend? Thanks for keeping us informed about nice fish :)

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sure! axolotls are a type of salamander and they’re a little unusual because unlike the rest of salamanderdom, they’ve hung on to their larval form and keep it their entire lives. 

usually for salamanders, only their tadpole-equivalent babies have gills! adult salamanders do not. here’s a baby tiger salamander for comparison!

keeping a baby trait like this is called Neoteny

however, though this doesn’t happen in the wild, it turns out that it is actually possible to cause an Axolotl to develop into a secret forbidden Adult Form by injecting them with the precursor to a growth hormone in a lab! 

BEHOLD, THEIR FINAL FORM:

it’s like somebody made a regular salamander out of raw chicken breast.

AND NOW YOU KNOW.

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itosdattist

eren, i also want to share your burden, I committed the same crimes as you, please come back

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bunjywunjy
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I think it's cool that mola molas are so big and strangely shaped, but they can still jump above the water!

they can giddyap if they really feel like it, they just usually don’t unless they have to because it costs so much energy to go fast!

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